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Categorizing the Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus Carolinensis):
Domain: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ 
Kingdom: Animalia
Phyllum: Chordata
Class: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ 
Order: Rodentia 
Family: Sciuridae
Genus: Sciurus
Species: Carolinensis
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Eukarya

Mammalia

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Categorizing the Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus Carolinensis):
Domain: Eukarya 
Kingdom: Animalia
Phyllum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia 
Order: Rodentia 
Family: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
Genus: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
Species: Carolinensis
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Sciuridae

Sciurus

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Categorizing the Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus Carolinensis):
Domain: Eukarya 
Kingdom: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
Phyllum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia 
Order: Rodentia 
Family: Sciuridae
Genus: Sciurus
Species: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
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Animalia

Carolinensis

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Categorizing the Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus Carolinensis):
Domain: Eukarya 
Kingdom: Animalia
Phyllum: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
Class: Mammalia 
Order: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ 
Family: Sciuridae
Genus: Sciurus
Species: Carolinensis
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Chordata

Rodentia

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________-a systematic approach to answering those questions

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Science

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________-a way of acquiring knowledge though carefully documented investigation and experimentation

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Science

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_________ _______- a way of learning about the natural world by applying certain rules of logic to the way information is gathered and conclusions are drawn

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scientific method

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What are the steps of the scientific method?

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  1. make careful observations, and ask a question about it
  2. hypothesis
  3. make a prediction based on your hypothesis, and test it
  4. Conclusion
  5. Make new predictions and test them OR revise hypothesis/predictions and test them
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What is a hypothesis?

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an answer to a scientific question

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A hypothesis is a __________, not a question

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statement

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A hypothesis is a statement, not a ________

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question

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True or False; a hypothesis can be shown to be false, it can never be proved to be true

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True

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_________ ___________- ideally designed in such a way that there can be only one explanation for the results

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controlled experiment

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What are the two groups in a controlled experiment?

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(1) control group

(2) experimental group

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Which group in a controlled experiment receives the placebo?

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control group

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What is a placebo?

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an innocuous, non drug substance made to look like the drug being tested

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What is the difference between an independent and confounding variable?

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independent variable- one factor given to one group but not the other

confounding variable- additional variable that has not been controlled for, and may have affected the outcome

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What is a conclusion?

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an interpretation of the data

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_________ __________- a measure of the possibility that the results were due to change

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statistical significance

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The lower the number (of statistical significance), the more ________ the results

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______- a well supported and wide-ranging explanation of some aspect of the physical universe

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What is the difference between inductive and deductive reasoning?

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Inductive Reasoning- facts are accumulated through observation until the sheer weight of the evidence allows some logical general statement to be made

Deductive Reasoning- begins with a general statement that leads logically to one or more deductions, or conclusions

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_________ reasoning= specific-> general claim

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Inductive reasoning= _______-> general claim

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Inductive reasoning= specific-> _______ claim
general
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_________ reasoning= general-> specific claim
Deductive
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Deductive reasoning= _______-> specific claim
general
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Deductive reasoning= general-> _______ claim
specific
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Which type of reasoning is this: | described as an “if-then” series of associations
Deductive Reasoning
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What are clinical trials?
studies on humans
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What are the phases of clinical trials?
Phase I: drug is screened for safety on fewer than 100 healthy people Phase II: a few hundred people with the target disease are given the drug to see whether it works for its intended purpose Phase III: the new drug will be compared with alternative treatments
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After all of the phases of a clinical trial, the ____ approves the drug.
FDA
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What is a double-blind experiment?
an experiment where neither the researchers not the study participants know which people are receiving treatment and which are receiving the placebo
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clinical traits require _______ _______
informed consent
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Participants of a clinical trial must also be ________ capable of understanding the treatment and risks
mentally
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What is an epidemiological study?
researchers look at patterns that occur within large populations
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What are some questions that critical thinkers should ask?
1. Is the information consistent with information from other sources? 2. How reliable is the source of the information? 3. Was the information obtained through proper scientific procedures? 4. Were experimental results interpreted correctly? 5. Are there other possible explanations for the results?
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__________ ________- the ability to recognize what you need to know, locate relevant information, evaluate it, apply it to the problem at hand, and communicate it effectively
information literacy
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What are humans relatives in relation to our family?
- mountain gorilla (male) - chimpanzee - bonobo (young) - lowland gorilla - sumation oranutang (male) - bornean orangutang (female & child)
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Biology comes from the greek: ____= life _____= study of
bios | logia
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Biology comes from the greek: bios=_____ logia= _____ ___
life | study of
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True or False: A hypothesis can be true even if it cannot be tested.
False; if you cannot test a hypothesis, it's not science
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Religous, Aesthetic, Ethical, Superstitious...etc. are usually useful perspective but not __________, and cannot be _________ by science.
scientific | disproven
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Science does not address _____________ questions, or questions that involve ______ ____________.
metaphysical | value judgements
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_____________ is often referred to as "junk science".
Pseudoscience
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Pseudoscience is ________ and lacks _________ ________.
unstable | empirical evidence
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Pseudoscience is often referred to as "_____ science".
"junk
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______________ is unstable and lacks empirical evidence.
Pseudoscience
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Pseudo=_______
false

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